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A charge to keep I have (Watchman) ; A few more days on earth to spend (The Christian's hope) ; A poor wayfaring man of grief (Duane Street) ; Afflictions, though they seem severe (Tennessee) ; All hail the power of Jesus' name (Coronation) ; Amazing grace (New Britain) ; And if you meet with troubles (Heavenly armour) ; And let this feeble body fail (Animation) ; And let this feeble body fail (Hallelujah) ; Angels in shining order stand (Alabama) ; Approach, my soul, the mercy seat (Peterborough) ; As down a lone valley (Murillo's lesson) ; As on a cross the Saviour hung (The converted thief) ; Before the rosy dawn of day (Enfield) ; Behold the judge descends (Symphony) ; Burst, ye emerald gates (Elysian) ; By Babel's streams we sat and wept (Babel's streams) ; Come, all ye mourning pilgrims dear (Pilgrim) ; Come away to the skies (Middlebury) ; Come, humble sinner, in whose breast (Fairfield) ; Come, humble sinner, in whose breast (Hanover) ; Come let us join our cheerful songs (Rochester) ; Come, little children, now we may partake (Louisiana) ; Come, O thou traveller unknown (Vernon) ; Come on, my partners in distress (Consolation new) ; Come sound his praise abroad (Dartmouth) ; Come, sound his praise abroad (St. Thomas) ; Come sound his praise abroad (Silver Street) ; Come, thou fount of ev'ry blessing (Warrenton) ; Come, we that love the Lord (Webster) ; Dear friends, farewell (Minister's farewell) ; Death, 'tis a melancholy day (Tribulation) ; Do I not love thee (Detroit) ; Farewell, farewell, farewell, my friends (Pilgrim's farewell) ; Farewell, my dear brethren ( Imandra new) ; Forgive the song that falls so low (Cowper) ; From Greenland's icy mountains (Missionary hymn) ; Glorious things of thee are spoken (Jefferson) ; Good morning, brother pilgrim (Salutation) ; Great God, attend while Zion sings (Ballstown) ; Hail, solitude, thou gentle queen (Sweet solitude) ; Hail, ye sighing sons of sorrow (Sons of sorrow) ; Hark, don't you hear the turtle dove (The turtle dove) ; Hark, the herald angels sing (Cookham) ; Hark, the jubilee is sounding (Jubilee) ; He comes, he comes, to judge the world (Messiah) ; He dies, the friend of sinners dies (Morning) ; He dies, the friend of sinners dies (Salem) ; His hoary frost, his fleecy snow (Winter) ; Hither, ye faithful (Portuguese hymn) ; Hosanna to Jesus (South Union) ; How beauteous are their feet (Worcester) ; How long, dear Saviour (Northfield) ; How painfully pleasing (Family Bible) ; How pleasant 'tis to see kindred (Sharon) ; How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (Salem) ; How tedious and tasteless the hours (Green fields) ; I am a great complainer (Complainer) ; I find myself placed in a state of probation (The Christian warfare) ; In the floods of tribulation (Sweet affliction) ; In vain we lavish out our lives (Vermont) ; Jesus, let thy pitying eye (Weeping Peter) ; Jesus my all, to heav'n is gone (Jerusalem) ; Jesus my all, to heav'n is gone (Marysville) ; Jesus, with all thy saints above (Arlington) ; Let every creature join (Newburgh) ; Life is the time to serve the Lord (Wells) ; Lift up your heads, Immanuel's friends (The good old way) ; Look from on high (New hundred) ; Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear (Exhortation) ; Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear (Phoebus) ; Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I (Greenwich) ; Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I (Huntington) ; Lord, what is man (Dublin) ; Mercy, O thou son of David (Charlestown) ; Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints (Sweet home) ;Mine eyes are now closing to rest (Christian song) ; My Christian friends, in bonds of love (Parting hand) ; My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey (Farewell anthem) ; No more beneath th'oppressive hand (Liberty) ; No more shall the sound of war-whoop be heard (War department) ; O come, come away (O come away) ; O come, loud anthems let us sing (Old hundred) ; O God of love (Georgia) ; O happy day, that fix'd my choice (Gravity) ; O hearken, sinners, we have come (Collins) ; O, if my soul was form'd for wo[e] (Repentance) ; O thou, that hear'st the pray'r of faith (Aithlone) ; Oh for a closer walk with God (Bethel) ; Oh how charming (Christmas anthem) ; Oh, Jesus, my Saviour (Expression) ; Oh, once I had a glorious view (Columbus) ; Oh, were I like a feather'd dove (Solitude in the grove) ; On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (New Jordan) ; On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (Sweet prospect) ; Our bondage it shall end (The saints bound for heaven) ; Rejoice, the Lord is King (Carmarthen) ; Religion is the chief concern (Pleasant Hill) ; Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings (Invocation) ; Sacred to heav'n behold the dome appears (Masonic ode) ; Say, now, ye lovely social band (Clamanda) ; See the Lord of glory dying (Lena) ; So fades the lovely blooming flow'r (Distress) ; Soldiers of the cross, arise (Bruce's address) ; Sweet is the day of sacred rest (Devotion) ; Teach me the measure of my days (Suffield) ; Thanks to the hand that set us free (Uxbridge) ; The day is past and gone (Evening shade) ; The God we worship now (Aylesbury) ; The Lord will happiness divine (Cambridge) ; The men of grace have found glory (Concord) ; The morning sun shines from the east (Ode on science) ; The scatter'd clouds are fled (Spring) ; The time is soon coming (Millennium) ; There is a house not made with hands (Mount Pleasant) ; There is a land of pure delight (Paradise) ; This spacious earth is all the Lord's (Paris) ; Thou great mysterious God unknown (Rhode Island) ; Thou who hear'st when sinners cry (Supplication) ; Through ev'ry age, eternal God (Stratfield) ; Throughout our widespread union (Mountville) ; Thus far the Lord hath led me on (Hebron) ; Thus saith the high and lofty one (Petersburg) ; Thy words the raging winds control (Virginia) ; 'Tis finished, 'tis finished (Southwell) ; Vital spark of heav'nly flame (Claremont) ; Wake, all ye soaring throngs (Harmony) ; Welcome, sweet day of rest (Little Marlborough) ; What shall I render to my God (Providence) ; What solemn sound the ear invades (Mount Vernon) ; What wondrous love is this (Wondrous love) ; When God reveal'd his gracious name (Conversion) ; When, his salvation bringing (Hosanna) ; When I can read my title clear (Primrose Hill) ; When the midnight cry began (The midnight cry) ; While beauty and youth are in their full prime (Morality) ; While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night (Sherburne) ; Why should we mourn departing friends (China) ; Will God forever cast us off (Mear) ; With songs and honours sounding loud (Edom) ; With songs and honours sounding loud (Morgan) /Anon. -- My soul forsakes her vain delight (Leander) |
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Austin -- Lay up nearer, brother (The dying California) / Ball & Drinkard -- How blest the righteous when he dies (Valley Grove) ; Pass a few swiftly fleeting years (I am passing away) / R.F. Ball -- Why should we start, and fear to die (Roll on) / Miss Cynthia Bass -- The promise of my Father's love (Trumbull) / Benham -- David the king was grieved and moved (David's lamentation) ; I am the rose of Sharon (Rose of Sharon) ; I beheld, and lo a great multitude (Heavenly vision) ; Lord of the worlds above (Amherst) ; My God, my life, my love (Hingham) ; The Lord is ris'n indeed (Easter anthem) / [William] Billings -- Go, preachers, and tell it to the world (Cuba) / J.A. Bolen & H.S. Rees -- Come, ye that love the Lord (Albion) / Boyd -- A charge to keep I have (Williams) ; Oh, who will come and go with me (We'll soon be there) ; Young men and maidens raise your tuneful voices (Hope) / Oliver Bradfield -- Alas, and did my Saviour bleed (Victoria) ; Come and taste, along with me (Weary pilgrim) ; Come, friends and relations (Redemption) ; Come let us join our friends above (Arnold) ; Farewell, vain world, I'm going home (I'm going home) ; From gloomy dejection (Meditation) ; How painfully pleasing the fond recollection (The old-fashioned Bible) ; My span of life will soon be done (Charlton) ; O may I worthy prove (Prosperity) ; Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes (Shepherds rejoice) ; The cross of Christ inspires my heart (Cross of Christ) ; There is a happy land (Happy land) ; What's this that in my soul is rising (Mercy's free) / Leonard P. Breedlove -- The hill of Zion yields (Mount Zion) / Brown -- As pants the hart (Converting grace) / R.E. Brown, Jr. -- Come, thou fount of ev'ry blessing (Family circle) / Rev. R.E. Brown & B.F. White Thou art gone to the grave (Funeral thought) / Caldwell -- Come, sinners, to the gospel feast (Lebanon, new) / Rev. Jas. P. Carrell -- Come, little children, now we may partake (Little children) ; Head of the church triumphant (Church triumphant) ; Mid scenes of confusion (Banquet of mercy) ; Not many years their rounds shall roll (Florence) ; O for a shout of sacred joy (Augusta) ; Oh, may I worthy prove to see (Exhilaration) ; Oh when shall I see Jesus (Ecstasy) ; Urg'd by compassion (Sandtown) ; Watchman, tell us of the night (Night watchman) ; What poor, despised company (Irwinton) ; What ship is this that will take us all home (The old ship of Zion) ; With thankfulness we will adore (Concord) ; Would Jesus have the sinner die (Oak bowery) / Dr. T[homas] W. Carter -- How did his flowing tears condole (Sardinia) / Castle -- Alas and did my saviour bleed (Bleeding Saviour) ; How firm a foundation (Bellevue) ; When Adam was created (Creation) / Z. Chambless -- Buried in sorrow and in sin (Primrose) ; Come thou fount of ev'ry blessing (Olney) ; Grace 'tis a charming sound (Ninety-third Psalm) / Chapin -- Hark, from the tombs a doleful sound (Plenary) / A. Clark -- See how the wicked kingdom is falling (Essay) / A.C. Clark -- No burning heats by day (Delight) / [Simeon] Coan -- When I can read my title clear (Ninety-fifth) / Colton -- Thou man of grief, remember me (Kedron) ; Dare -- Dear People, we have met today (Day of worship) / B.F. & E.K. Davis -- Am I a soldier of the cross (Living lamb) ; Lift up your heads, Immanuel's friends (Let us go) ; Our bugles sang truce (The soldier's dream) / C.A. Davis -- Come, thou fount of every blessing (Ball Hill) / J.W. Davis -- Did Christ o'er sinners weep (Newry) ; Young people all, attention give (Liverpool) / M.C.H. Davis -- And am I born to die (Idumea) / Davison -- Dear sovereign of my soul's desires (Emanuel) ; Mercy, O thou son of David (Villulia) ; Ye humble souls, complain no more (Russell) / J.M. Day -- Once more, my soul (Consolation) / Dean -- Now, in the heat of youthful blood (Exhortation) / Doolittle -- Children of the heavenly King (The Marcellas) ; On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (The heavenly port) ; There is a house not made with hands (Rees) ; While sorrows encompass me round (Endless distress) / Rev. Edmund Dumas -- Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise (Star of Columbia) ; On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (The promised land) / Miss M.T. Durham -- Blow ye the trumpet (Lenox) ; From all that dwell below the skies (Bridgewater) / Edson -- Come youth and middle aged (Reflection) / E. Elmore -- Why should we start, or fear to die (Prospect / Graham -- The time must come when we must part (Parting friends) / J.C. Graham, arr. -- How happy is the pilgrim's lot (The pilgrim's lot) ; Young people, all attention give (Mission) / A. Grambling -- O that my Lord would come and meet (All saints, new) / Hall -- Great God, attend to my complaint (Duke Street) / [John Warrington Hatton] -- Come, my soul, and let us try (The grieved soul) / Miss M.A. Hendon -- Hail the blest morn (Star in the east) / R. Herron -- The busy scene of life is clos'd (Paradise plains) / J.L. Hinton & H.S. Rees -- Come away to the skies (Exultation) ; My days, my weeks, my moths, my years (Kingwood) / Humphreys -- Lo, what a glorious sight appears (New Jerusalem) / Ingalls -- The Lord into his gardens come (Nashville) / Johnson -- Though the morn may be serene (Morning meditation) / Miss S.G. Jones -- A story most lovely (The lovely story) ; Afflictions, though they seem severe (The prodigal son) ; Come, brothers and sisters who love one another (Union) ; Come, Holy Spirit, come (Abbeville); Come, humble sinner, in whose breast (Invitation) ; Daniel's wisdom may I know (Holiness) ; Did Christ o'er sinners weep (Weeping saviour) ; Farewell, vain world (Service of the Lord) ; Give unto the Lord the glory (Reverential anthem) ; Hark how the gospel trumpet sounds (Gospel trumpet) ; Hark, my soul, it is the Lord (Talbotton) ; How happy's every child of grace (The child of grace) ; I began life's journey when young (Ode on life's journey) ; I love my blessed Saviour (Carnsville) ; Lord, shed a beam of heavenly day (Frozen heart) ; O when shall I see Jesus (Bound for Canaan) ; Oh for a breeze of heavenly love (Canaan's land) ; Oh who will come and go with me (Sweet Canaan) ; See how the scriptures are fulfilling (Fulfilment) ; To leave my dear friends (The bower of prayer) ; To our Redeemer's glorious name (Fort Valley) ; Today, if you will hear his voice (Turn, sinner, turn) ; Who the cause of Christ would yield (The cause of Christ) ; Why should we at our lots complain (Dull care) |
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Ye objects of sense (The dying Christian) / E.J. King -- Come, humble sinner (The sinner's resolve) ; O when shall I see Jesus (The lost city) ; The Lord, who built the earth and sky (Sweet heaven) ; What is there here to court my stay (Parting friends) / E.L. King -- I want to live a Christian here (New Harmony) / Miss M.L.A. Lancaster -- Oh, sing with me / Miss P.R. Lancaster -- O who will come and go with me (I'm on my journey home) / Miss S. Lancaster -- Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend (Pisgah) / Lowry -- O when shall I see Jesus (Griffin) / R.F.M. Mann -- How bright is the day (Lawyer's exit) ; How lost was my condition (Pleasant Ohio) ; Jesus, and shall it ever be (Corinth) ; O for a thousand tongues to sing (Mount Zion) ; O, sing to me of heaven (Sing to me of heaven) ; Oh when shall I see Jesus (Autauga) ; On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (This world is not my home) ; Shepherds, rejoice, lift up your eyes (Oxford) ; Show pity, Lord (Cusseta) / John Massengale -- There is a land of pure delight (Greensborough) / Col. John Mercer -- Brethren, we have net to worship (Holy manna) ; Early, my God, without delay (Montgomery ; Sweet rivers of redeeming love (Sweet rivers) / More -- The pleasant fields of Paradise (Paradise) / Wm. H.B. Mosher -- Dismiss us with thy blessing (Washington) ; Young people all, attention give (New Topia) / Munday -- The people called Christians (The spiritual sailor) / I. Neighbors -- Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove (Heavenly dove) / A. Ogletree -- Jesus, my all, to heav'n is gone (North Point) / Dr. R.R. Osborne and J. Smith -- Away here in Texas (A song of Texas) / S.W. Palmer & H.S.R. -- O, seek ye heaven (The Birman hymn) / W.W. Parks -- A home in heaven / W.W. Parks & M.H. Thomas -- Awake, my soul, to joyful lays (Loving-kindness) / J.L.P. & S.R. Penick -- Lo, on a narrow neck of land (Narrow space) / S.R. Penick -- Blow ye the trumpet (The year of Jubilee) ; I am on my journey home (Golden streets) / J.L. Pickard -- Sinner, art thou still secure (Pleyel's hymn) ; While thee I seek (Pleyel's hymn second) / Pleyel -- Be kind to thy father (The loved ones) ; I'll sing my Savior's grace (The Christian's nightly song) ; Jesus, thy far extended fame (Fame of Jesus) / E.T. Pound -- Hosanna to Jesus (The royal band) / W.T. Power -- Am I a soldier of the cross (Christian soldier) ; Lord, I cannot let thee go (King of peace) ; When I can read my title clear (The saints' delight) / F. Price -- How long, dear Saviour (Promised day) / L.M. Raiford -- Broad is the road that leads to death (Windham) ; Far from my thoughts (Westford) / Read -- My spirit looks to God alone (Russia) ; My thoughts, that often mount the skies (Calvary) / Reed -- And am I born to die (World unknown) ; Death, 'tis a melancholy day (Melancholy day) ; Farewell, vain world, I'm going home (Travelling pilgrim) ; Go and tell his disciples (Jesus rose) ; I'm dying, mother (The dying boy) ; O land of rest (Land of rest) ; Our praying time will soon be o'er (Struggle on) ; Wake, O my soul (New Hosanna) / H.S. Rees -- The happy day will soon appear (Sweet morning) / H.S. Rees, arr. -- May the grace of Christ our Saviour (Sweet communion) / H.S. Rees & J.H. Jenkins -- Alas and did my Saviour bleed (Love the Lord) ; And now my friends, both old and young (Farewell to all) ; Asleep in Jesus ; Fight on my soul (Fight on) ; Awake my soul in joyful lays (Sweet union) ; He wept that we might weep (Jesus wept) ; I've a long time heard (The great day) ; O what of all my sufferings here (Eternal day) ; O yes, my Saviour I will trust (Happy home) ; Should earth against my soul engage (Grantville) ; They crucified the Saviour (Weeping Mary) ; Vain man, thy fond pursuits forbear (Newman) ; When we've been there ten thousand years (Dumas) ; You may tell them father (Weeping pilgrim) ; Youth, like the spring (Youth will soon be gone) / J[ohn] P. Rees -- Yes, my native land, I love thee (Can I leave you) / John P. Rees, Arr. -- God, my supporter, and my hope (Protection) ; Great God, the heav'n's well-order'd frame (New Lebanon) / Sherman -- Death, like an overflowing stream (Exit) / P. Sherman -- From all that dwell below the skies (Schenectady) / Shumway -- While traveling through the world below (Pennick) / M. Sikes -- Thy works of glory, mighty Lord (Ocean) / Swan -- Sinners, perhaps this news with you (Woodville) / Rev. Mr. Thomas & B.F. White -- How beauteous are their feet (Zion's joy) / Dr. W.J. Thomas -- How pleasant, how divinely fair (Portugal) / Thorley -- Away, my unbelieving fear (Confidence) / J.R. Turner -- Shed not a tear o'er your friend's early bier (When I am gone) / M.H. Turner -- In the dark wood no Indian nigh (Indian song) / T. & J.R. Turner -- Jesus, I my cross have taken (Monroe) |
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O land of rest (New prospect) / W.S. Turner --'Tis religion that can give (Religion is sweet) / W.R. Waldrup -- The time is swiftly rolling on (Shiloah) / Thomas Waller -- Where nothing dwelt bu beasts of prey (Whitestown) / Ward -- Transporting news the Saviour's come (Transporting news) / J.H. Whaley and C.A. Davis -- Here's my heart, my loving Jesus (Loving Jesus) / White & Searcy -- Am I a soldier of the cross (Joyful) ; And must I be to judgment brought (Melody) ; Behold the morning sun (Sounding joy) ; Christ was born in Bethlehem (Floyd) ; Come, all who love the Lord indeed (Hamilton) ; Come tell of your ship (The happy sailor) ; Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched (Beach Spring) ; I came to the place (The lone pilgrim) ; I'm not ashamed to own my Lord (The inquirer) ; In those days came John the Baptist (Baptismal anthem) ; Jesus, grant us all a blessing (Shouting song) ; Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone (Done with the world) ; Lord of the worlds above (Worlds above) ; Must Simon bear the cross alone (Simon's cross) ; My brethren all, on you I call (Look out) ; My friends come listen awhile (Anthem on the Saviour) ; O for a closer walk with God (Piety) ; O when shall I see Jesus (The morning trumpet) ; Salvation, let the echo fly (Rockingham) ; Soft, soft music is stealing (Soft music) ; The glorious light of Zion (Burk) ; The Hill of Zion ; The Lord spoke unto Moses (The Red Sea anthem) ; There is a holy city (Holy city) ; 'Tis my desire with God to walk (Desire for piety) ; We're travelling home to heaven above (Will you go) ; When thou, my righteous judge, shalt come (Happy matches) ; Where are the Hebrew children (The Hebrew children) ; While in this vale of sorrow (Vale of sorrow) ; Ye souls who are bound unto Canaan (Help me to sing) / B.F. White -- How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (Ortonville) ; Naked as from the earth we came (Hatfield) ; There is a land of pure delight (Ballerma) / B.F. White, arr. -- O, tell me no more (Send a blessing) ; There is a fountain filled with blood (Remember me) / B.F. White & L.L. Leadbeater -- How many years has man been driv'n (Restoration) ; May the grace of Christ our Saviour (Columbiana) ; My waken'd soul, extend thy wings (Texas) ; Oh the delights, the heavenly joys (Norwich) ; Pilgrim, burden'd with thy sin (Auburn) ; The spirits of Washington (The American star) / David P. White -- Here, in thy name, eternal God (Pleasant Grove) ; How happy, how joyful, how lovely (The many wants) ; How tedious and tasteless the hours (Edgefield) ; In evil long I took delight (Harris) ; On Jordan's stormy banks I stand (Jordan's shore) ; Sometimes a light surprises the Christian (Lumpkin) ; Though nature's strength decay (The goodly land) ; Well may thy servants mourn (The church's desolation) ; What's this that steals (All is well) ; Ye weary, heavy-laden souls (The weary souls) / J.T. White -- Let sinners take their course (Florida) ; My soul, repeat his praise (America) / Whitmore -- The chariot, the chariot, its wheels roll in fire (The trumpet) / J. Williams -- Away from home, away from friends (The wanderer's grave) ; How painfully pleasing the fond recollection (The blessed Bible) ; O welcome, welcome festal day (Union Grove) ; Oh when I see Jesus (Religion is a fortune) ; Peace, troubled soul (Christian's delight) ; Saviour, visit thy plantation (Return again) / Wm. L. Williams -- I know that my Redeemer lives (Antioch) / F.C. Wood. |
| General note | For 3-4 voices. |
| General note | Shape-note notation. |
| General note | An unabridged republication of an 1860 imprint of the third edition of 1859. |
| General note | This facsimile has been made from an original copy in the personal library of William J. Reynolds. |
| General note | Original title page reads: The sacred harp; a collection of Psalms and hymn tunes, odes and anthems, selected from the most eminent authors... New and much improved and enl. ed. Philadelphia; Published by S. C. Collins, for the proprietors: White, Massengale, Hamilton, Ga., 1860. |
| General note | "Rudiments of music": pages 5-25. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| LCCN | 68018032 |
